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Monday, September 10, 2012

Play Room Storage Unit

This project has taken me months (yes there is an s on that) to get done. I just chipped away at it a little at a time. Here is the beginning of out storage unit. You last saw this picture when I did our basement reveal after we repainted and added board and battan to the walls. It was small and only primed at that point.

Since then I've added quite a bit more to it. I turned to Ana White for her free plans. The plans for the base sections can be found here, and the plans for the cubby portion can be found here. I made a few modifications since I wanted the storage unit to be built-in around our 8-inch ledge and wanted the unit to look like this:

(Pottery Barn Cameron Creativity Storage System)

Warning: Mine doesn't look that pretty...yet.

Once it was all built I was unhappy with the edges not being completely smooth (since I used MDF) and I wanted it to look seamless where the units met up. You can see what I'm talking once you see the photo below:

So I bought a bunch of trim to cover it all up. That made it look so much better!

Here it is all painted. FINALLY! It's been a long time coming. I obviously need to still find/make some bins to make it look all cute, but for now all the toys have a place, and I love that.

I made knobs out of a couple pipe supplies and one cabinet has a shelf and one is just open to house larger toys. I think I probably spent around $300. I hope to put details on the knobs and cabinets soon. Thank you!

Hi, welcome to my blog! My name is Kristi. I love finding ugly things and making them pretty and trying to recreate or improve items at a price we can afford. I have two beautiful children and a loving husband who supports me with all my crazy ideas. My husband and I bought our first house in June 2011, and I have since loved making it our home.